Stuck between the Taliban’s and the U.S.’ suspension of commercial flights from Kabul Airport, Afghans trying to make their way into the airport and out of Afghanistan .


those who have successfully climbed and hold on to the aircraft body will not last long when the Plane takes off ….

The art of ancient Gandhara was little known in the West until the Taliban destroyed the gigantic statues of the Buddha at Bamiyan in 2001. But it was in the Gandhara region of Pakistan (present day Bamiyan in Afghanistan, Bactria, the Hindu Kush, and the Punjab of northwest India) that the first flowering of Buddhist figural art occurred from the 1st century BCE through the 5th century CE.


In 327 B.C, King Alexander the Great conquered Gandhara area and some of his troops settled in the area and established a number of remote small Greek city states, referred as Indo-Greek kingdoms, bringing the Greco art to Asia.     Statues of Olympian Gods like Zeus, Apollo, Heracles, Dionysus were commonly founded from this era in Gandhara.

The Gandhara school drew upon the anthropomorphic traditions of Roman religion and represented the Buddha with a youthful Apollo-like face, dressed in garments resembling those seen on Roman imperial statues.

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